Changing email format to UTF8

Question

Is that possible to change the email format to utf8 before going out. Thank you

Answer 1

Hi,
It is definately possible, but the process depends a bit on how your Office 365 identity setup looks like, and also what you actually want to do?
Do you want to change the logon username as well?
Are you using DirSync for provisioning accounts? If that is the case, it's in your on-premise Active directory you need to do the changes.
Here's a very quick example that sets primary email address for all users to
[email protected] (note that I'm not changing the logon address). I am also assuming that you have Displayname formatted as "Firstname Lastname". It will not remove any old
addresses, just set them as aliases.
Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails UserMailbox| Foreach-Object {
$DisplayName = $_.DisplayName.split(" ").tolower()
$NewEmailAddress = "$($DisplayName[0]).$($DisplayName[1])@365lab.dk"
Write-Host "Old primary email address is $($_.WindowsEmailAddress), will change to $NewEmailAddress"
Set-Mailbox -Identity $_.Alias -WindowsEmailAddress $NewEmailAddress -WhatIf
You need to remove WhatIf  from the set-mailbox cmdlet in order to do actual Changes...
Below you'll find acouple of links that may be useful as well:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj984289(v=exchg.150).aspx - Connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell
http://www.o365info.com/2013/03/manage-email-address-using-powershell.html - Good information about changing email addresses with powershell.
Hope this helps you out!
/Johan
Microsoft Certified Trainer
MCSE: Desktop, Server, Private Cloud, Messaging
Blog: http://365lab.net